• Striker@lemmy.world
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    Trees and green in the US southwest a pipedream tbh. The only way that could possibly be achieved is by siphoning off a ridiculous amount of water from another location. Call it as it is. The US Southwest isn’t built to sustain human life.

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      “Pheonix is a monument to man’s arrogance”, as King of the Hill said.

      It’s one of those places I think about sometimes, wondering “do people really need to live everywhere”?

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        There has been talk of diverting water from the Mississippi river (or was it the Missouri?) and somehow transporting it across the continental divide to the southwest. Terrible idea, I might be worried if it wasn’t so far outside the realm of possibility.

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          Aren’t all of the major waterways, or at least a good portion of them, facing water level challenges as is?